The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive is officially in beta and open for testing! 🚀 We are modelling #GlobalRomanticism through the #SemanticWeb and your participation is encouraged and appreciated! Explore the beta: www.romanticperiodpoetry.org #Romanticism #19thC #poetry #DigitalHumanities

📖 Book launch! 📖 Tomorrow evening, we are hosting a book launch for 'Luisa Hewitt: The Girl Who Lived in the Library', a book about a woman who grew up living in the Taylorian. Please do come and join us for what is sure to be an incredibly interesting event! We look forward to seeing you there!

📚 Book launch! 📚 Join us for the release of our new 'Treasures of the Taylorian' book 'Luisa Hewitt: The Girl Who Lived in the Library'- written by Luisa herself, and edited by Christina Ostermann! 📍Room 2, Taylor Institution Library 📅 Wednesday 15th October ⏰ 5:00 - 6:30pm

🖌️New Exhibition 📖 Our new exhibition, 'Le Livre d'Artiste', is now open, and showcases two approaches in the Artist Book tradition. 📍Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution Library 📅 Until 7th July 2025 ⏰ 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat.

Save the date! We're holding one of our ever-popular freebie book events next Friday. Come and check out our wares over a cake and a coffee. 🍰 📍 Main Lecture Hall 📅 Friday 20th June 🕐 1:30 - 3pm

👋 Welcome back! 👋 We're very happy to welcome you all back for Trinity Term! We hope you all had a relaxing and productive vacation! Good luck to everyone who has exams this term, and please don't hesitate to ask if there is something we can do to help!

The redecoration of the Voltaire Room needs a bit more time, and so will be extending into next week (w/b Monday 7th April). If you need material from the room before it reopens, please let library staff know at the Enquiry Desk! Many thanks for your patience as we refresh this space.

It's Day 2 of this week's #ShoutOutForGerman initiative! Championing German goes way back for us. Here's a 1929 course by the Taylor's German Professor - for the gramophone: ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... What are your highlights of learning the wonderful (and useful!) language of Deutsch?

Aus gegebenem Anlass: recording of a lecture by Henk de Berg on the Anatomy of Populism: The Rhetoric of the AfD (for my lecture series Historical Linguistics, topic: language of totalitarianism) youtu.be/83Loo091juY

📢Reader survey reminder📢 There's still time to have your say here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/librar... Survey closes Monday, 24 Feb. It will be another 3 years before the next one, so take this chance to tell us how we are doing and influence our plans!

It's a new day at the Taylorian, and a new social media platform 🦋 What to expect? The same content from our previous posts on other sites: Modern Languages events in Oxford, library updates, and top tips for using the Taylorian! Let's chat! Let us know what you'd like to see on our feed 🌞

Our edition of 'Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen' is now #openaccess available on google books thx to @emmahuber.bsky.social: books.google.co.uk/books?id=oIx... @oxfordgerman.bsky.social #Reformation #pamphlets #Christian #freedom

Had a really great time yesterday at the Oxford Digital Festival, representing the Taylor Institution's information skills project, Taylor Editions: editions.mml.ox.ac.uk. I learnt about a huge number of different initiatives. Look out for the event write up and recordings of the main talks!